$500 is awarded annually for the best article on any significant aspect of Latin American history written in English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish and published in a journal other than the Hispanic American Historical Review or The Americas. An English translation of articles published in in French, Portuguese or Spanish is required. To be eligible for the prize, authors must be members of the CLAH during the year the article is published and the year that it is considered for the award. The committee will consider nominated and self-nominated articles. The committee will review only those articles published in the year preceding the award. Thus articles published in 2024 will be considered for the 2025 award to be presented at the conference in January 2026.

For an article to be considered, each of the three committee members must receive a copy by email by June 1, 2025. The subject line should read “LastName – Vanderwood” and the file name should be “LasName_Vanderwood.” The Executive Director should be informed of the committee’s decision no later than October 15, 2025.

This prize was established in 1961 and renamed the Vanderwood Prize, in recognition of Paul Vanderwood, in 2012. It carries a stipend of $500.

Note: The CLAH requires current membership for all of its prizes and awards.

Vanderwood Prize Committee for 2025:

Ileana Rodríguez-Silva (chair)
University of Washington
imrodrig@uw.edu

Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Harvard University
gsotolaveaga@fas.harvard.edu

Daniel Rood
University of Georgia
danrood@uga.edu

Deadline to apply: June 1, 2025

Donations to the Vanderwood Prize fund can be made here.

To see the list of past Vanderwood Prize recipients and prize committees, see here.